This is really two questions: "Should" in the moral sense, and in the legal one.

Legally, I don't see how they have a case. They could be a racist asshole and demand no (whatever) nurses, but then it would have been nice for the hospital to then promptly kick them to the curb. Unfortunately, they can't do that.

The hospital/patient relationship is a business one, and either party can terminate the relationship if they wish. Or, at least, it should be that way. In practice it's more complicated than that.

I would hope no hospital would give in to such a request. I think the appropriate response is "We will provide quality nursing care, but who exactly it is will be determined by our scheduling process. We will not change our nursing staffing to meet such a request. If this is a problem you should consider seeking care elsewhere."

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Actually he can.

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Well, he certainly has the right to request it, he can't demand which hospital personnal provide the care.

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While the father is a racist jackass, he has that right to decide who takes care of his daughter. Under the constitution it is not against the law to be a racist jackass, we have more than one of them on SLS.

I can't see the lawsuit against her bosses as going anywhere because they were not at fault.

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Hospital sued for bending to swastika-tatted dad's no-blacks demand

Tonya Battle was "shocked, offended and in disbelief" when her supervisors at Hurley Medical Center informed her she couldn't care for a baby in the neonatal ICU because she is African-American. And now she has slapped a racial discrimination lawsuit on the Flint, Mich., hospital after it acquiesced to a father who flashed his swastika tattoo to get across his demand for white-only personnel. A supervisor also posted a "no African-American nurse" note on the baby's chart, an act even the hospital's lawyer advised later was improper, though the order stood. Battle, who has worked at the hospital for 25 years, is seeking unspecified damages.

Should the hospital have given in to the dad's demands?

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He is a stupid, racist, egotistical, prick what flavor doesn't even matter.

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Typical angry violent liberal~~Obama should ban them.

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He's misunderstood...

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Baldwin is a Liberal. All his sins will be forgiven in the media

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Poor old Alec is at it again...............

Actor Alec Baldwin allegedly called a black Post photographer a racial epithet, a "crackhead" and a "drug dealer" during a confrontation on an East Village street yesterday morning, prompting police to intervene.

Baldwin had first been approached by a Post reporter while walking his dogs outside his East 10th Street pad at around 10:50 a.m. He was asked for comment on a lawsuit against his wife, Hilaria, involving her work as a yoga instructor The “30 Rock’’ star grabbed the reporter, Tara Palmeri, by her arm and told her, “I want you to choke to death,” Palmeri told police, for whom she played an audiotape of the conversation.

He then called G.N. Miller — a decorated retired detective with the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau and a staff photographer for The Post — a “coon, a drug dealer,’’ Miller’s police statement said.

At one point, Miller showed Baldwin ID to prove he’s a retired NYPD cop, which Baldwin dismissed as “fake.”

Cops were called, and Miller, 56, and Baldwin, 54, both filed harassment claims against each other.

Minutes later, Baldwin ranted on Twitter.

“Thank u 2 NYPD officers who came to my home 2day so that I could file a formal complaint against NY Post “photographer’’ who assaulted me,’’ he tweeted.

In another post, Baldwin referred to Miller, for unknown reasons, as “Ralston,” writing, “Moments after I tweet about the Post, Ralston, the ex-crackhead ‘photographer’ shows up at my door w 1 of Murdoch’s nieces in tow.”